A Dog’s Broken Heart

We buried him in our garden.

—We knew he had been traumatized in the first few years of his life. Nobody, however, knew of his broken heart. From what we heard, Romeo had been chained to a balcony, beaten and malnourished. It took a while for him to learn to trust us, his new owners. But he never got rid of many of his fears. The vet was one of them. So when Romeo needed treatment, he needed sedation. His heart couldn’t handle it. Somewhere I read that it is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved. We buried him in our garden.

About Aernout Zevenbergen

Aernout Zevenbergen is a counsellor in Switzerland. His specialties are modern masculinity, identity, and life transformations. Between 1997 and 2016 he lived in various countries in Africa, where he worked as a journalist, and published his book Spots of a leopard – on being a man. He blogs here.

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